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• Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) - Geography.

  VII HISTORY Indigenous nations have lived around Yellowknife Bay for thousands of years. The historic occupants were the Athapaskan-speaking Dogrib people, hunters of caribou.The Dogrib were displaced briefly in the early 19th century by the Yellowknife band of the Chipewyan nation, who moved into the area to participate in the fur trade.The bay, and eventually the city, were named for the Yellowknife band, whose name is believed to derive from their yellow knife blades hammered out of native...

• Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) - geography.

  Scottish-born Canadian fur trader and explorer Sir Alexander Mackenzie came into the area in 1789, traveling down the river that now bears his name. His firm, the NorthWest Company, operated a fur-trading post at Fort Providence near the western shore of Great Slave Lake until the 1820s. The area attracted outside interest again in thelate 1890s when prospectors discovered gold there. However, the deposits were not extensive enough to spark serious mining activities. In the 1930s the advent of a...

• Yellowknife.

• Yellowknife (« Couteau jaune », en anglais), ville du Canada, chef-lieu des Territoires du Nord-Ouest, sur la rive septentrionale du Grand Lac des Esclaves.

• Northwest Territories - Geography.

  million years ago by the severe bending (folding) and faulting (breaking) of sedimentary rock that was once part of the Interior Plains. During the Wisconsin Ice Age,alpine glaciers covered the Cordillera, and the movement of the glaciers created razor-sharp peaks and ridges in these mountains. The moving glaciers also createdbroad U-shaped valleys. To the east of the Interior Plains, the ancient rocks of the Canadian Shield are exposed at the Earth’s surface, resulting in a rough, rolling terra...

• Northwest Territories - Canadian History.

  million years ago by the severe bending (folding) and faulting (breaking) of sedimentary rock that was once part of the Interior Plains. During the Wisconsin Ice Age,alpine glaciers covered the Cordillera, and the movement of the glaciers created razor-sharp peaks and ridges in these mountains. The moving glaciers also createdbroad U-shaped valleys. To the east of the Interior Plains, the ancient rocks of the Canadian Shield are exposed at the Earth’s surface, resulting in a rough, rolling terra...